Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:0348-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

spacecmd:

  • Fix importing state channels using configchannel_import
  • Fix getting file info for latest revision (via configchannel_filedetails)
  • Add functions to merge errata (softwarechannel_errata_merge) and packages (softwarechannel_mergepackages) through spacecmd (bsc#987798)

spacewalk-backend:

  • Move channel update close to commit to avoid long lock (bsc#1121424)
  • Adapt Inter Server Sync code to new SCC sync backend
  • Fix issue raising exceptions 'with_traceback' on Python 2
  • Hide Python traceback and show only error message (bsc#1110427)
  • Honor renamed postgresql10 log directory for supportconfig

spacewalk-client-tools:

  • Fix XML-RPC type serialization (bsc#1116610)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2019-348=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (noarch)
    • spacewalk-client-setup-2.8.22.4-52.12.1
    • python2-spacewalk-client-setup-2.8.22.4-52.12.1
    • spacecmd-2.8.25.8-38.33.1
    • spacewalk-client-tools-2.8.22.4-52.12.1
    • python2-spacewalk-check-2.8.22.4-52.12.1
    • spacewalk-check-2.8.22.4-52.12.1
    • python2-spacewalk-client-tools-2.8.22.4-52.12.1
    • spacewalk-backend-libs-2.8.57.8-55.27.1

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